ONDCP Pledges More Money for Border Crackdown

March 1995

Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Lee Brown announced plans
to increase aid for patrols along the U.S. southwest border in order to
reduce drug smuggling ("Border Crackdown on Drugs," Los Angeles
Times, Feb. 26, 1995, p. A3).

Pounds of cocaine seized in 1994 dropped to 1,765 from 7,708 in 1993.
In an effort to increase the amounts seized, the plan will transfer 80 customs
inspectors to border areas. Brown said that the federal government will
spend $15 million on anti-drug activities in the area, $8 million
of which will target the San Diego and Imperial counties area.

"We will continue to attack the organizations and the traffickers
who export poison to our communities and to our children," Brown said
at a press conference announcing the new plan.